Well, I’m a bit late with this—Mother’s Day was last Sunday—but I couldn’t resist. This is one of my favorite Beginner Books / Easy Reader picture books. A classic. I still remember reading it with my mom when I was about four…

Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman: Summary

Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman opens with a mother bird sitting on a big yellow egg in her nest. The egg starts to jump and shake, so the mother bird decides she had better go and find some food to feed her baby bird, who is about to arrive. Soon after she flies away, the egg hatches, and the baby bird asks, “Where is my mother?”

Since the baby bird can’t see his mother anywhere, he decides to go looking for her. He steps out of the nest, falls to the ground (can’t fly yet!), and sets off on an adventure to find his mother. He encounters a series of things—a kitten, a hen, a dog, a cow, a steamboat, an airplane, and a large steam shovel that he calls a “snort” (because it snorts!)—and asks each in turn, “Are you my mother?”.